by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 14, 2012 | Internet
This is from a few months ago, but I just discovered it this week, via MenInMenstruation: The Man-Pax Experiment. After being told by a reader that until he’s worn one, he has no business making a tampon or maxi-pad joke, comedy writer Sam Jordan conducts a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 7, 2012 | Internet
Li’l Maxi (A.K.A. half of Toronto theater duo Pomme Is French for Apple) stars in “I Flow Heavy”, an entertaining new music video, west Indian style, about the inconveniences of menstruation — like cramps, expensive femcare, PMS, and having to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 30, 2012 | Internet
What do menstruation & gender equality have in common? Check out this video from The Crimson Campaign to learn more, and how five minutes can change the world. Jezebel blogger Lindy West knows the difference and doesn’t care: It’s all vagina to me....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 23, 2012 | Internet
Those lovely images at right are life-sized replicas of a non-menstruating uterus and a menstruating uterus, called Wombs for Wisdom, hand-made by Megan Assaf. Contact her for more information if you’d like your own set. Do women prefer more complex music around...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 16, 2012 | Internet
Anthropologist Beverly Strassmann’s research on the role of menstrual huts in the Dogon religion suggests that the practice of menstrual isolation may have developed as means to assure paternity — or as the popular press has been covering the story, to...
